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Feb 23, 2005

"All of life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly" --Martin Luther King

Engineers Without Borders

The Mayan village of San Pablo in Belize had no electricity, no running water, no sanitation, and since most villagers worked on the local banana plantation the duty of hand-carrying drinking and irrigation water to the village from a nearby river fell to the children. That was until University of Colorado civil engineering professor Dr. Bernard Amadei and his students designed, funded, and built a water delivery system for the village. Not only did the project liberate the village children, but it launched Engineers Without Borders-USA, an organization that has mobilized the talents of thousands of engineering students and professionals to provide renewable energy and clean water to villages in developing countries.